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Mystical Analysis of Dream… Y. Ali. & K.F. Mustafa (115

               brothers in the form of stars             which my Lord has made
               and      his     father     and           come true”. (Quran, 12: 100)

               stepmother  in  the  form  of
               the  sun  and  the  moon                  Meaning  that  God  made
               would  be  very  pleasing  to          it manifest and clear to the

               them.  Since  (his  brothers)          senses,  after  it  had  been
               did  not  know  what  Joseph           true  in  imaginative  form.
               had seen and his perception            (Ibn  Arabi,  1946,  Vol.  1:

               was     preserved      in    his       100-101)
               imagination.                               3.  Joseph’s       Fellow-
                  When  Joseph  told  Jacob                  Prisoners Dreams

               his  dream,  his  father  was          They  are  the  two  dreams
               aware  of  the  danger  and            that  the  companions  of
               said:                                  Joseph  saw  in  the  prison

                  “My son, do not tell your           when  they  entered  it  with
                  dream  to  your  brothers           him  and  this  is  what  was
                  lest  they  plot  against           mentioned  in  the  noble
                  you;  satan  is  the  sworn         verse:

                  enemy  of  man”.  (Quran,              “Two  young  men  were
                  12: 5)                                 also sent to serve prison

                                                         sentences  (for  different
                  And After that Joseph at
               the end of the story said:                reasons).  One  of  them
                  “Father!  This  is  the                said,  ‘I  had  a  dream  in

                  fulfillment of my dream of             which  I  was  brewing
                  long  ago  (interpretation             wine’.  The  other  one
                  of  my  earlier  dream),               said, ‘In my dream I was
                                                         carrying  some  bread  on
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